Goods-support for clothes-drying machines.



No. 746,659. PATENTED 13130.15, 1903.

W..M. BARNES.

Goons SUPPORT FOR CLOTHES DRYING MACHINES. APPLICATION-FILED JUNE 29. 1903.

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' W. M. BARNES. GOODS SUPPORT FOR CLOTHES DRYING MACHINES.

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UNITED STATES Patented December 15, 1903.

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GOODS-SUPPORT FOR CLOTHES-DRYING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,659, dated December 15, 1903. Application filed June 29, 1903. Serial No. 163,491. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern:

support for the goods to be dried consisted of laterally-projecting pins. With this character of support it is impossible to separate the goods into groups with certainty. With certain classes of goods-for instance, new 001- lars-it is essential that a certain group of collars,one dozen, shall be held together from the time they are given to the laundry until they are boxed. Where they are hung up upon independent pins, it ispractically impossible to accomplish this result with any certainty.

It is to render certain this resultwith my clothes-drying machine of my Patent No. 684,7 7 6 that I have devised the goods-support which forms my present invention. This improvement, broadly considered, consists in connecting to the conveyer preferably a hook, a bar, or two bars secured together, each bar supporting a plurality of supports upon which the garments may be placed.

My invention also consists in certain im-' portant details, which hereinafter will be more fully explained.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation with parts assembled. Fig. 2 is a detail side elevation with parts in position for'stripping goods. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is top plan view of carrier. Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of carrier.

A is the conveyor, suspended by rollers a a from a track T, all as in my previous patent No. 684,776. From the conveyor A extends at intervals a shank b, at the end of which is a hook B.

O O are bars, preferably of wood, connected together by the plate O,having the eye 0 upon it,.the hook B beingadapted to engage the eye 0. On the under surface of each bar O is a groove 61, in which is slidably mounted the plate D, having the projecting portion 01, passing through the slot 01 in the bars 0. To the upper end of this projecting portion d is attached the lug or head 01 by means of which, within the limit of slot (P, the plate I) may be moved along the bar 0. Secured to the plates D are a number of goods-supports (i which, as shown, are angular in form. Secured to the bars 0 O are a plurality of hoops or loops (1". In the movement of the platesD the goods-supports 01 maybe brought in such position that the vertical portion is in alinement With loops at, (full lines, Fig. 1,) when the goods may be freely placed upon and carried by the supports (1 They then may be moved to the dotted-line position shown, Fig. 1, when the goods are secured from falling from the goods-supports. To release the goods, the plates D are moved in the reverse position until the goods-supports pass through the loops, (seeFig. 2,) in which casein the movement from the first-mentioned position to this position the goods will be stripped ofi.

Asmay readily be seen, with the construction just described a certain batch of collars-twelve, for instance-sufficient for a box, may be placed after starching upon one of these compound goods-supports. The compound support is detachably secured to the conveyor, and the goods treated from the time they are starched until they reach the final operation entirely separate from any other batch. This enables the work of the operatives to be determined and also a given batch of collars to be maintained together. Of course after drying the operator merely releases the compound support from the conveyer.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a drying-machine of the character described, in combination, a conveyer,-a plurality of bars secured together in substantial parallelism so as .to leave a space between them, each bar having a plurality of goodssupports carried thereby and detachable means for securing said bars to said conveyer.

2. In a drying-machine of the character described, in combination, a conveyer, a plurality of bars, a plate secured to both bars so as to leave a space between them, each bar having a plurality of goods-supports carried thereby and detachable means for securing said plate to said conveyer.

3. In a drying-machine of the character described, in combination, a conveyer, a plurality of bars, a plate secured to both bars so as to leave a space between them, each bar having a plurality of goods-supports carried thereby, a hook carried by the conveyer and an eye carried by the plate.

4. In a drying-machine of the character described, in combination, a conveyer, a plurality of bars secured together so as to leave a space between each bar having a groove, a plate longitudinally movable in each groove, angular goods-supports carried by said plates, loops secured to said bars in line of movement of said goods-supports, and detachable means forsecuring said bars to said conveyor.

5. In a drying-machine of the character described, in combination, a conveyer, a plurality of bars, a plate secured to both bars so as to leave a space between each bar having a groove, a platelongitudinally movable in each groove, angular goods-supports carried by said plates, loops secured to said bars in line of movement of said goods-supports, and detachable means for securing said plate to said conveyer.

6. In a drying-machine of the character described, in combination, a conveyer, a plurality of bars, a plate secured to both bars so as to leave a space between each bar hav ing a groove, a plate longitudinally movable in each groove, angular goods-supports carried by said plates, loops secured to said bars in line of movement of said goods-supports, a hook carried by the conveyer and an eye carried by the plate.

In testimony of which invention Ihave hereunto set my hand at Philadelphia on this 24th day of June, 1903.

WILLIAM M. BARNES.

Witnesses:

M. F. ELLIS, W. B. MARKS. 

